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NEWTOWN -- Charities that have collected money after the shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School are being asked to provide information about their fundraising to the attorney general and consumer protection commissioner.

Attorney General George C. Jepsen and William M. Rubenstein, consumer protection commissioner, Thursday mailed short surveys to 69 charities that have accepted donations related to the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, where 20 first-graders and six women were killed.

It is estimated that more than $15 million has been collected by charities since the shooting.

Jepsen and Rubenstein want each charity to release how much money they have collected, whether the money will be used for victims, how much money the charities have spent related to the shooting and services provided by the charities to Sandy Hook victims.

Survey results will be posted on Jepsen's and Rubenstein's websites when they become available.

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